Illicit
How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy
Written by Moises Naim
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.00
A groundbreaking investigation of how illicit commerce is changing the world by transforming economies, reshaping politics, and capturing governments.In this fascinating and comprehensive examination of the underside of globalization, Moises Naím illuminates the struggle between traffickers and the hamstrung bureaucracies trying to control them. From illegal migrants to drugs to weapons...
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The Federalist Papers
Written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
Format: Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1982
Price: $7.99
Originally published anonymously,
The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States. Still hotly debated, and open to often controversial interpretations, the arguments first presented here by three of America’s greatest patriots and...
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The Journalist and the Murderer
Written by Janet Malcolm
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: October 31, 1990
Price: $15.00
In two previous books, Janet Malcolm explored the hidden sides of, respectively, institutional psychoanalysis and Freudian biography. In this book, she examines the psychopathology of journalism. Using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit as her larger-than-life example -- the lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, against Joe McGinniss, the author of...
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This Business of Television
Written by Howard Blumenthal and Oliver Goodenough
Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2006
Price: $35.00
Broad in scope and rich in detail,
This Business of Television has been the essential sourcebook for producers, writers, broadcasters, network executives, and other television professionals since the first edition was published in 1991. And as the television business continues to evolve,
This Business of Television evolves along with it. This...
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Justice
Crimes, Trials, and Punishments
Written by Dominick Dunne
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $15.00
For more than two decades,
Vanity Fair has published Dominick Dunne’s brilliant, revelatory chronicles of the most famous crimes, trials, and punishments of our time. Here, in one volume, are Dominick Dunne’s mesmerizing tales of justice denied and justice affirmed. Whether writing of Claus von Bülow’s romp through two trials; the...
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There Is Power in a Union
The Epic Story of Labor in America
Written by Philip Dray
Format: Trade Paperback, 816 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $19.95
From the nineteenth-century textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for the American bounty has shaped our national experience.
In this stirring new history, Philip Dray shows us the vital accomplishments of organized labor...
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Witsec
Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program
Written by Pete Earley
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2009
Price: $7.99
For decades no law enforcement program has been as cloaked in controversy and mystery as the Federal Witness Protection Program. Now, for the first time, Gerald Shur, the man credited with the creation of WITSEC, teams with acclaimed investigative journalist Pete Earley to tell the inside story of turncoats, crime-fighters, killers...
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Anatomy of Injustice
A Murder Case Gone Wrong
Written by Raymond Bonner
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $26.95
The book that helped free an innocent man who had spent twenty-seven years on death row.
In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His...
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